MESSAGE
| DATE | 2002-08-18 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] RPM HELL
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Your all going to discuss this over a Keg next Saturday Night?
Right....
Ruben
On 2002.08.17 16:23 j. ercole wrote:
> Thus spake Billy (billy-at-dadadada.net):
>
> > On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 01:58:10AM -0400, j. ercole wrote:
> > > Shout out to Billy D.: A while back you had a handspring with a gps.
> > > Having recently acquired one I'm already running through batteries at
> > > an annoying rate. Did you ever buy or come across an adapter, either
> > > cigarette lighter, or otherwise for it. The Magellan is a powerhog,
> > > but it's too much fun. I can honestly say it's the first piece of
> > > technology I've bought in forever that makes me smile and go, "oooh,
> > > this solid state stuff is pretty fun."
> >
> > The Magellan GPS Springboard has a little DC socket at the top for just
> > such an occasion. I've never used the DC socket.
>
> Yes, I think one of radio shack's "universal" adaptors fits, and is
> 3v, so I might go down there (when the wholel global warming thing
> ends) and try it out.
>
> >
> > The Magellan GPS actually speaks NMEA protocol on the handspring's
> > serial port. I *detected* it. I got to the point where I was
> > taking data off of the NMEA stream, and pumping it out of the IRComm
> > to my laptop. Then my LAPTOP had a GPS-stream enabled on /dev/ircomm0.
> > Then things got 'weird' and I didn't have the energy to fix it anymore.
> > It was all just an effort to learn the internals of my Palm-like device(tm).
>
> OUTSTANDING. Any less and I'd have known immediately they'd replaced
> the real BD w/ one of their second-rate bio-tech replications.
>
> I only got mine two days ago, give me some time with it. I've been
> thinking the one annoying thing about the whole NYCwireless community
> was not having a GPS card for my laptop. I'm thinking, "Maybe that's
> not such a problem anymore. . ."
>
> Thanks for the tarball.
>
> j.
>
> >
> > Bon chance!
>
> "Houston, luck is not a factor."
>
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